Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America / Nicole Eustace.
"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case created a contest between Native American forms of justice, centered on community, forgiveness, and reparations, and an ideology of harsh reprisal, based on British law, that called for the killers' execution. In a stunning narrative history based on painstaking original research, acclaimed historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the crime and its aftermath, taking us into the worlds of Euro-Americans and Indigenous peoples in this formative period. A feat of reclamation evoking Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale and Alan Taylor's William Cooper's Town, Eustace's utterly absorbing account provides a new understanding of Indigenous forms of justice, with lessons for our era"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631495878
- ISBN: 1631495879
- Physical Description: xiv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2021]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Awards Note: | A Junior Library Guild Selection. |
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Genre: | True crime stories. |
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- 16 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Cambria County Library | 364.1523 E915c (Text) | 85131001769646 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Carbondale Public Library | 364.1523 EUSTACE (Text) | 50688010793371 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Emmaus Public Library | 364.1523 EUST (Text)
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Gallitzin Public Library | 364.152 EUS (Text) | 31814300662597 | GALM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | 364.1523 EUS (Text) | 91079864 | GFWM Main Room | Available | - |
Harbaugh-Thomas Library (Biglerville) | 364.1523 EUSTACE (Text) | 35740635720881 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | 364.152 Eustace History (Text) | 39427103653838 | Nonfiction Room: Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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